The K24x7 blog is intended as a place for anyone interested in applications of technology to teaching and learning to explore ideas and options. It is one component of a larger system - Knowledge 24x7 - created using free tools for generating audio, video, and 3-D systems to build a Virtual Learning Environment for use at home or in school.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Tracking Hits on My Blog

Did you ever wonder who was reading your blog and where they live?

FeedJit will provide you with the answers. It's a free widget you can get at http://feedjit.com that provides you with data on visitors to your blog in any of four formats: Live Traffic Feed; Recommended Reading; Page Popularity; and Live Traffic Map, an example of which you can see in here in the sidebar.

Widgets for Blogger and many other blogs and social networks are available and install as Javascripts in one or two clicks. The newest widget works with Twitter. All the modes except Live Traffic Maps include live links back to the visitor's site.

FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map

About Me

I once published an essay entitled, “What Language Do You Speak?” The point of the essay was that each of us speaks a unique language based on our demographic characteristics, education, and experience. So, I am a 70+-year old, Wharton-school trained graduate, B.S. in Economics, plus 30 graduate credits in Quantitative Economics, who returned to graduate school after 20 years of higher ed teaching and administration, to earn a doctorate in education and begin a second and third career, initially in technology in the private sector, than as a K-12 educator, eventually as a superintendent of schools and finally a COO/CFO for a large non-profit publisher and professional development organization, Along the way, I spent ten years in experiential education, started four alternative schools, and edited a compendium of best practices in K-12 education. I’ve been a computer user since 1953, and involved in online learning and instructional technology for more than 30 years.

Funki Voki

Every once in a while you stumble across something so funky that you just have to try it. I can't believe I spent nearly an hour tweaking the image, adding a background photo (my house), and recording a message.

Voki is free; a much more powerful commercial version is found at SitePal